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Safari 4 Released, Claimed "30 Times Faster Than IE7"

Posted by timothy on from the don-your-pith-helmet dept.

CNETNate writes "Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is '30 times faster than IE7,' and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include 'Top Sites,' which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, 'Full History Search' for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while."

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  1. More Fun Demos by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Falling Leaves Animation: http://webkit.org/blog-files/leaves/index.html
    Bouncing Box Animation: http://webkit.org/blog-files/bounce.html
    Rotate and Fade Animation: http://webkit.org/blog-files/pulse.html
    CSS Recipes for Effects: http://developer.apple.com/safari/articles/webcontent/cssrecipes.html
    CSS Gradients: http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/InternetWeb/Conceptual/SafariVisualEffectsProgGuide/Gradients/chapter_2_section_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008032-CH7-SW11
    Video tag (requires Quicktime): http://webkit.org/blog/140/html5-media-support/
    CSS Gradients: http://webkit.org/blog/175/introducing-css-gradients/
    Background Shaped Clipping: http://webkit.org/blog/164/background-clip-text/
    Local Database Example: http://webkit.org/misc/DatabaseExample.html

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  2. Impressions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    - Scrolling this /. page is extremely slow in safari.
    - The tabs in the window's title bar is just plain annoying and feels really out of place.
    - Just like Google's Chrome this browser also doesn't blend in well with MS Windows UI. It's feels alien to the other programs.

  3. In other news... by stormbringer_comming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Opera 10 has been out months with these features, and it's javascript speed is very good on REAL WORLD SITES, not just the Webkit optimized SunSpider synthetic benchmark...